At once I heard a great chirping and a flutter of wings.

Was it to you, Mr. Walter Landor, whom Southey (in his strange affection for the name of Wat) had honoured with so much kindnessto you whose "matin chirpings" he had so generously encouraged, (as he did John Jones's "mellower song,")was it to you that Wordsworth delivered so injurious a judgment on the works of your patron?

Even the birds in their nests, awakened by the firelight, join their sleepy chirpings to the chorus.

In that week, by whistling to him in my leisure hours, I taught him to perform almost perfectly that lively aria of Meyerbeer's, 'Folle è quei che l'oro aduna,' and also to mimic beautifully the chirping of a cricket.

" Cobweb thin, the accompaniment took up the plaintive chirping till the Maestro sang the second verse.